Hi All, Just wanted to introduce myself and see if anyone had any suggestions for me. I am an academic neuroscientist and developer. My programming background is mostly C/Objective-C, but I have a new project that really screams out for being developed as an RIA, so I am currently consuming everything I can about web development. I am extremely interested in anything related to RIA development for use in science, especially time series graphing.
I am leaning heavily towards Flex for the client side for my project, but I am still exploring server side options - Flexible Rails, standard AJAX with PHP/MySQL, and just started to take a look at Red5. I am interested in Flex Data Services, but I am leery of the costs. The general idea is a data browser for neuroscience experiments. Most of this is pretty standard content management stuff, but where it gets tricky is displaying our time series electrical data. This has a lot in common with financial data display, so I was wondering if anyone has dealt with these issues before. Specifically I would like to link Flex charting components to a database that can pull up a range of data by time codes (I've been exploring both BLOB storage and Round Robin Database for this) and scale the graphs appropriately. If anyone has any suggestions on how to pull this off or best practices I would be grateful. Peter Passaro
